Business Intelligence and On-Demand: The Perfect Marriage? Both established vendors and upstarts now offer BI applications as on-demand services. And more customers are saying yes to faster deployment times, less onerous IT demands and speedier access to reporting data. Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he [...]

Four Tips for Better Business Intelligence in 2008 Avalanches of data and the need for better decisions mean it’s time to take BI to the next level. Aberdeen offers ways to make achieving that next level easier. Companies want more actionable data, and they want more users to have it. But extending the use of business intelligence [...]

The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary I have collected and compiled this from a very nice website.Some of the terms are relating to Microsoft’s tool (Microsoft’s Analysis Services ) but that can be generalised to other non-microsoft tools also. Link >> Agent An application that searches the data and sends an alert [...]

Is Data Warehousing Essential to Business Intelligence? Is Data Warehousing Essential to Business Intelligence? The role of data warehousing is changing as companies move toward using new business intelligence approaches. Over the last few issues of this newsletter, I have been writing about the impact of Enterprise 2.0 approaches on business intelligence (BI). I intended this time to [...]

What is the Difference Between Querying and Browsing Data? What is the Difference Between Querying and Browsing Data? Search is beginning to gain interest in the business intelligence (BI) space, and several people have begun asking about the difference between querying data (using a traditional database query language) and browsing data using a search tool, and which [...]

Business Intelligence A new technology can analyze data at amazing speeds. So why is higher ed slow to adopt? Listen to higher ed futurists and you’ll be convinced that business intelligence is the wave of the future. It is the next “it” thing that will connect every part of the enterprise. Best yet, BI will link all [...]

Top 5 Ways To Increase BI Value Top 5 Ways To Increase BI Value What are the most effective ways to increase the value your company gets from its business intelligence systems? N=215 1)Better align our business intelligence systems with our business strategy [50% ] 2)Improve data quality [47% ] 3)Better integrate our business intelligence systems with other systems such as [...]

Database Normalization and Table structures Database Normalization and Table structures Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database. There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as 1NF (First Normal Form), 2NF (Second Normal Form), 3NF (Third Normal Form) and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form). There are others but they are […] http://www.infopurple.com/database-normalization-and-table-structures

Interview Questions - Oracle AR (Functional) -Accounts Receivables 03 Interview Questions - Oracle AR (Functional) Accounts Receivables Interview Questions AND aSWERS some of the questions and answers listed here might repeat .from http://www.infopurple.com/interview-questions-oracle-ar-functional-accounts-receivables-02 http://www.infopurple.com/interview-questions-oracle-ar-functional-accounts-receivables-01 1. How do you create a Chargeback Invoice ? A. Using Receipts window 2. How do you adjust the amount of advance already received against an Invoice ?A. Create [...]

Business Intelligence and On-Demand: The Perfect Marriage? Both established vendors and upstarts now offer BI applications as on-demand services. And more customers are saying yes to faster deployment times, less onerous IT demands and speedier access to reporting data. Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he [...]

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Life cycle of a DW ( Data Warehouse ) project I am compiling everything in one page for easy page navigation and easy learning.hope you like it. 1 )Requirement Gathering Requirements Gathering is started by directly discussing or with JAD sessions (Joint Application Development) with the End users .The help of Business leader or Business […] http://www.infopurple.com/life-cycle-of-a-dw-data-warehouse-project-2